Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 576 Joint Stock City

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water, and relying on grasslands, naturally one has to find a way to eat livestock!

Let’s start with why later Genghis Khan was so awesome. The Mongolian cavalry’s feat of advancing in the era of cold weapons could not be replicated even in the era of hot weapons before Wang Hou traveled. One of the magic weapons is this milk powder!

And the more he went deep into the grassland, the more Wang Hou learned about the real situation of the grassland. Like before, he thought that nomads were big fish and meat all day long. A herdsman who raises hundreds of sheep may not be able to eat one in a year.

Moreover, although nomadic herding requires ten times more land than farming, in fact, the dairy production capacity of nomadic peoples has always been surplus!
Because it is said that farming depends on the sky for food, and nomadic food is actually more dependent on the sky than farming. The milk production of about two or three dairy sheep is enough to feed a person, but a white disaster can wipe out [-] to [-]% of a tribe’s livestock. You raise How many animals can be regarded as enough, so no matter which tribe, the herds in the tribe will do their best to raise as much as they can, even if they can't run out of milk, they have to keep it.

Then it comes to the second key point, reserve!

The grassland nomads in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties had a better life, because since the Song Dynasty, there were iron pots. Later Mongolians boiled milk tofu with a small fire in an iron pot to boil fresh cow and goat milk until it was sticky, and then put it in a wooden pot. The grids are dried and hardened, but in this era, there are not even iron pans, and the heat conduction of urns is much worse than that of ironware. The grasslands are notoriously short of fuel, so nomads can't store much dairy products in the same period of time.

In this case, there is a lot of room for Wang Hou to operate!
"Salt and sugar can be kept fresh and antiseptic! What you are drinking just now is not fresh milk, but milk powder specially made by me in Liaodong. Fresh cow and goat milk are put in an iron pot, boiled with sugar until it becomes thick, then dried and ground into powder ! It’s this powdered milk!”

"In addition, I have some bad news for you all. The milk powder you just drank is not fresh, it was brewed by someone ordered by me at this time last year!"

Seeing Wang Hou's smirk, many rich grandchildren in Liaodong couldn't help but change their expressions slightly. The one-year-old dairy products are still taken out for the big guys to drink. Isn't this deliberately cheating them!Can't get drunk!
But it was the bearded man from Kangju from the Western Regions who was the first to react, full of excitement, and he yelled loudly.

"Your Excellency, what do you mean, this milk powder can be stored for a year without going bad!"

"More than one year, the most one bag, I have kept it for three years, and I can still drink it!"

Now, more and more people come back to it!The advantages of farming peoples over nomadic peoples are not only that the cultivated land yields more grain, and less land feeds more people. More importantly, the grains collected are properly stored and can be stored for many years, just like Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. The grain stored in Luocang during the emperor's reign was still edible even more than [-] years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

But nomads, have you been carrying a bag of milk for more than [-] years?It will be broken in two or three days!

But now, Wang Hou's milk powder can still be eaten after three years, which means that dairy products can also be used as a food commodity sold on a large scale and long distances. It is simply a new challenge to the existing food types of the Han Empire.

Moreover, the energy provided by this thing is much more than the same unit of corn. Genghis Khan marched for tens of thousands of miles. The Mongolian army came with milk powder in their skin bags and meat floss on their backs as military rations. Meat floss is a meal when it swells.

Grasslands can also be turned into grain exporters!

Compared with the milk powder, the shock brought by the wool to the merchants was much less. After all, a long time ago, Wang Hou had produced cotton to impact the textile market of the old Han Empire. Although wool is a new industry, it is not unusual.

"General, are you recruiting us to invest in these two industries?"

Seeing the huge benefits in it, his eyes gleamed, and the old man Tian Rang Tian played the role of the nurse again, and shouted loudly, but who knew, Wang Hou shook his head heavily when he heard these words.

"What I want you to invest in is to build this city with the Xianbei people!"

"This……"

Hearing Wang Hou's words, Tian Rang froze in astonishment, but at this point, Wang Hou became excited, explaining his grand plan as quickly as a machine gun.

"I agreed with Ke Bineng that the construction of the city will be entirely borne by us in Liaodong! They paid for the land and the expenses for building the city. I will collect from you, but it is not for nothing! How much money and food each person pays today depends on How many shares do you own! The milk powder factory and the woolen yarn factory are built, and the city’s annual tax revenue will account for [-]% of this seat. Apart from leaving a certain percentage of the proceeds to operate the city, the rest will be distributed to everyone as dividends!”

"In addition, the materials produced in Grassland City are only sold to shareholders, and the materials are distributed according to the investment quota, and foreign merchants will purchase them!"

As soon as these two conditions came out, the eyes of many big merchants present obviously lit up. The former just regarded the city as a big shop. Although it seems that only [-]% is a bit small, it is the result of the joint efforts of monopoly Xianbei and Liaodong. out!A year is not too long!
The second is a complete monopoly!Milk powder can only be sold by those who participate in it like myself, so I became the first dealer for no reason. Although milk powder is not as indispensable as salt, it also has the taste of a small salt merchant in the Ming and Qing Dynasties!

But before the merchants finished weighing, Wang Hou's next sentence made everyone gasp again.

"The third point is that the management right of this prairie city is managed by half of my people from Liaodong and Xianbei. The management right of prairie city is managed by nine directors elected by the shareholders meeting. This city does not belong to the The Han government belongs to the shareholders!"

"You can form an army. If you dare to offend the tribes on the trade route, you have the right to declare war! The appointment and dismissal of city management officials is decided by the nine-member board of directors. In the end, although the laws of the Han Dynasty are prevailing in the city, when the opinions of the board of directors and the law conflict According to the decision of the board of directors, when there is a conflict between the opinions of the shareholders' meeting and the board of directors, the opinions of the shareholders' meeting shall prevail!"

This Timo's behavior is even more extreme than the Second Emperor Huanling selling his officials and nobles. It means that the big guy spent money to build a country!Hearing Wang Hou's announcement, it should be a businessman from Jingzhou whom Wang Hou didn't know and couldn't help but said.

"The army is formed by merchants. Isn't the general afraid of rebellion by merchants?"

"First of all! This is a profitable job, and I will also invest in shares!"

"Second!"

With a smile on his face, Wang Hou answered him, but he also spit out words of hatred.

"To form this prairie city, there must be at least hundreds of shareholders. If everyone thinks it should be reversed! Then reverse it!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire banquet hall was in an uproar. Even Xu Shu and Guanqiu Jian couldn't help showing horror, but after reacting for a while, Xu Shu couldn't help but nodded secretly. As for Tian Rang , Gaotie, Chen Duan and Zhu Gerui, businessmen who rebelled from these aristocratic families, are full of fanaticism.

The existence of Prairie City is equivalent to taking back the political status that merchants gradually lost after the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period!At least on the grassland, the big guys don't have to look at the faces of the gentry and ruthless rice worms on the land anymore!
(End of this chapter)